Italy awards 422 MW in most recent renewable resource tender

• Italy's Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE) on Monday announced 422 MW of wind, solar and also hydropower projects as winners in its newest ask for renewable energy capacity.

The competition was the 11th round of the region's require tenders supporting the implementation of renewable resource capacity. The next solicitation is because of be introduced on May 31 and will be finished on June 30.

State-owned power service system operator GSE obtained 120 applications with an incorporated capacity of 449.4 MW in the 11th call for tenders. Of this overall, 368.2 MW was awarded to wind and also solar photovoltaic (PV) projects from a general entries bag of 381.6 MW. Every one of these schemes were picked in the 1-MW-plus category.

Given that the begin of the tender programme, GSE has actually allocated 6.13 GW of sustainable projects, or 77% of the targeted capacity of 8 GW revealed to be available by the federal government back in 2019.